The A.M.

A collection of art exhibition soundtracks, Senegalese kids rhymes, audio collages, peyote song affirmations, spiritual jazz seeking, shoegaze reassurances, and other similarly soothing sounds to start your week off right. Just another Monday morning on The AM.

Playlist:

• Steve Gunn, David Moore - Painterly
• Hayden Pedigo - Elsewhere
• N NAO - Nymphe
• Nashville Ambient Ensemble - Horizon
• AVAWAVES - Fractured Light
• Dylan Henner - With Her First Ever Steps She Walked To Me And She Was So Happy
• Tim Hecker - Glissalia
• Sketch Show - MARS
• Ashi Shonen - Voyage
• Easy Idiot - Alive
• T. Gowdy - Transcend I
• Magic Sword - A Memory of Hope
• Ryan Bourne - 100 Years
• The Earlies - Morning Wonder
• Wau Wau Collectif - Xale (Toubab Dialaw Kids Rhyme)
• Rooster37 - Pigeon Lake
• A Certain Ratio - Tombo in M3
• Position Normal - Pepe Pepaymemimo
• Position Normal - Bedside Manner
• Telefís - Falun Gong Dancer
• Uh Huh - Somewhere Beyond
• Modern Cosmology - A Time to Blossom
• LT Leif - Bright Room
• Everything Is Everything - Witchi Tai To
• Isolde Lasoen - Bed & Breakfast
• The Circling Sun - Kohan
• Colloboh - Mystic You
• mohs. - Mirage
• Charles Spearin - Sympathy & Vegetations
• Spencer Cullum, featuring Dana Gavanski - What a Waste of an Echo
• Sunnsetter - Surely Everything's Alright
• High Five - I am the magnet king of the east

This week's AM leans towards the experimental and the abstract—one for fans of CJSW shows like Katharsis/Processed, with a couple of groovier, more upbeat tracks scattered throughout. Neo-classical, post-rock, psychedelic jazz, and an accidental fixation on deep-sea exploration gently coalescing for your listening pleasure.

Playlist:

• Violeta Vicci - Orbital
• Hélène Vogelsinger - Acceptation
• Alvaro Rojas - Tiger Dreams
• M. Sage - River Turns Woodley (for Frogman)
• Otto Taimela - time doesn’t heal all wounds
• Tim Hecker - Pulse Depression
• waivestate - Louise Falls
• Rachika Nayar - hawthorn
• As One - Descent Module
• Scrutineer - Lunar Rotation
• Cats Cradle - E X I \ S \ T
• Alex Albrecht - Cicada’s Shanty
• Various Artists, featuring Oceanographer - Close Encounters
• Eine Kleine China - Disko Bay
• Carl Didur - Close My Eyes
• Bart - Rose Quartz
• Cortex - Huit octobre 1971
• Cortex - Troupeau bleu
• Roman Angelos - Swimming Through the Aisles
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Shin Ramyun
• Jairus Sharif - 9-5 Silver
• Haythem Mabouli - The abandoned ones
• ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - A Workers’ Graveyard (Poor Eternal)
• Edena Gardens - Forst
• Jeffrey Silverstein, featuring William Tyler - Chet
• Sunnsetter - Float in Circles
• Catavento - Lagartia
• Alice Phoebe Lou - Child’s Play
• June McDoom - The City
• Frankie Cosmos - Spare the Guitar
• Sandro Perri - Floriana
• yes/and - Ugly Orange

This week, we open with an early track from YMO's Ryuichi Sakamoto, indulging in some ambient songs before drifting into some rare grooves in the second hour, and delicious dream pop in the third. All to fuel the first week of April. Hope you enjoy.

Playlist:

• Ryuichi Sakamoto - thatness and thereness
• Masahiro Takahashi - East Chinatown Stroller
• Khotin - 3pz
• Yasuaki Shimizu - Umi No Ue Kara
• Saint-Samuel - The Last Wave
• Fever Ray - North
• Brian Eno - These Small Noises
• James Holden - In the End You’ll Know
• NETRVNNER - Centauri
• Rooster37 - Upside Down Inside Out
• Teen Daze - Fountains Of The World
• The World Next Door - Only the Pink Dinosaur
• Penguin Cafe - The Second Variety
• Shigeto - What Are We Made Of
• Chip Wickham - Winter
• Sunbirds - Kwaeli
• Sven Wunder - Harmonica and…
• Mahogany Frog - A Decision of the Flower
• Mark Pritchard, featuring The Space Lady - SOS
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - The Widow
• Bristol Manor - Minor Attack
• Deary - Fairground
• Yo La Tengo - Brain Capers
• Black Market Karma, featuring Tess Parks - The Sky Was All Diseased
• Black Belt Eagle Scout - Nobody
• Child Actress - Men Without Homes
• Silver Dapple - Magique
• Pozi - Pest Control
• Genevieve Artadi - From Avalanche
• Limousine - Oiseau du matin
• Dada Plan - So Informative
• Shabason & Krgovich - I’m Dancing

This week's 8:30 Throwback takes expanded listen to Canadian synth pioneer and concept album superfan Mort Garson. That, plus a musical mood that oscillates between summoning spring, and coping with the last gasps of winter. All par for the course on your favourite weekly slab of off-beat easy listening, The AM on CJSW.

Playlist:

• Jilk - The Love That Pulls You In
• Cats Cradle - R A I N / / D A N C E
• Eluvium - Void Manifest
• Alvaro Rojas - Wish
• Secret Circuit - Every Day There's Something New To Say
• Rooster37 - Smoke and Mirrors
• Ivan the Tolerable - Seaweed
• Gilroy Mere - Rambler’s Dance
• Rich Aucoin - Prophet
• Mong Tong - Buniau
• Telefís - There Goes Waterface (voiced by Mrs. Hegarty)
• Moor Mother, featuring Black Quantum Futurism, Mary Lattimore - UMZANSI
• Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad - A New Spring
• The Natural Yogurt Band - Green Frog
• Joe Nora, Yuutsu - glacial
• Ataraxia (Mort Garson) - Deja Vu
• Ataraxia (Mort Garson) - The Unexplained
• Franco Battiato - Beta
• Charif Megarbane - Tayyara Warak
• Meltt - Blossoms
• Astral Swans - Tokyo
• Living Hour - Curve
• H. Hawkline - Denver
• Benoit Pioulard - Thursday Night
• Zoon - Gaagige (Edit)
• Fluffy Maybes 松软许诺 - Goodbye Rainswallow
• ANIMA! - Melting Colours
• Salami Rose Joe Louis, featuring Soccer96 - Akousmatikous
• Genevieve Artadi - Visionary
• Pia Fraus - French Exit
• Margret - Bloodspot
• Absolutely Free - Geneva Freeport
• Blauer Montag - Entonox Monotrope (with Milla & Monika)

It wasn't planned this way, but due to some nice synchronicities, this week's AM is a ringing in of spring and a celebration of the vernal equinox. It's also International Happiness Day, which is both a silly and serious idea, so hopefully this episode brings a little more happiness into your world. Opening with ambient trombone jazz (another silly but serious idea), closing with cathartic shoegaze, and finding room for eclectic sounds in between, it's an impromptu tribute to the springtime sun on The AM.

Playlist:

• Kalia Vandever - Temper the Wound
• Alondra Máynez - Ventus
• Murray A. Lightburn - Main Theme II (End Credits)
• The All Golden - The Mandate of the Kingdom of Heaven
• Various Artists, featuring Atelier Radiof​ó​nico - Sensorial Spectrum of the Tape Speed God
• Atari Umma - A New Season
• Anchorsong - Windmills - Salamanda Remix
• Mioclono - Blue Skies
• Tewksbury - Banda Mountain - shn shn Remix
• Stelar Door - Parallel 5ive
• Nachtbraker - Woke
• Raf Wilcot - Hold the Line
• The Greg Foat Group, featuring Kat Barnard - Milk and Honey
• Project Gemini - After the Dawn
• Sessa - Vento a Favor
• Andy Shauf - Paradise Cinema
• Rain Parade - This Can’t Be Today
• Rain Parade - I Look Around
• The High Dials - Picture of a Fading Man
• River Tiber - Hypnotized
• Death and Vanilla - Perpetuum Mobile
• Pedro Ricardo - A Marcha Que o Monte Parou
• Yo La Tengo - Miles Away
• Sugar Plant - Rise
• Blume - Still Believe
• Ulrika Spacek - No Design
• Bibi Club - Le Matin
• Alvvays - Easy On Your Own?
• En Attendant Ana - The Fears, The Urge
• ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That’s the Sun

Slightly belated after International Women's Day last week, it's All Femme AM 2023. Mostly selections that have been featured on the AM over the past year, with a few brand new tunes mixed in for good measure. Hope you enjoy it.

Apologies if I've misgendered anyone in putting this together.

Playlist:

• Arushi Jain - Richer Than Blood
• OHMA - Between All Things
• Clarice Jensen - Joy
• Annelies Monseré - Your Finest Hour
• Drum & Lace - Felt
• 10D3R - Flue
• Anna Butterss - Doo Wop
• Buildings & Food - South Current 2.0
• Mabe Fratti - Algo Grandioso
• RAMZI - égrégores
• Haiku Salut, featuring Meg Morley - Carousel
• Jessica Moss - Light Falls on Every Door
• Elori Saxl - Moss II
• Hannah Peel, Paraorchestra - We Are Part Mineral
• Rachika Nayar, featuring Maria BC - Heaven Come Crashing
• Sylvan Esso - Moving
• Dawn to Dawn - Ecology
• Living Hour - Hold Me In Your Mind
• Meg Baird - Ashes, Ashes
• Robin Hatch - Rest Stop
• Rahill - I Do Wonder
• Virginia Astley - Hiding the ha ha
• Hotel Josephine - Half Heartedly Gold
• Aoife Nessa Frances - Emptiness Follows
• US Girls - State House (It’s a Man’s World)
• Naima Bock - Berimbau
• Juana Molina - Misterio uruguayo
• Lael Neale - In Verona
• Sound of Ceres, featuring Marina Abramović - Arm of Golden Flame
• Puppet Wipes - A Web for Every Garden
• Alithia Leora Hambleton - Fade Out
• Tess Parks - Suzy & Sally’s Eternal Return
• Horsegirl - Billy

A few happy returns this week, with new music from Nabihah Iqbal, Mega Bog, and Benoit Pioulard (to name a few), plus a throwback to classic mid-2000s chamber pop, Morabeza Tobacco getting as close to the "Good Times" bassline as is legally allowed, and a healthy mix of atmospheric sounds, post-punk raves, experimental compositions and other offbeat easy listening for a Monday morning.

Playlist:

• Onur Tarçin - réfraction
• Andrew Bird - Ellipses
• waivestate - A Constant Source of Joy and Fascination
• Elskavon - Vivid
• Earth Trax - Bruises
• Masahiro Takahashi - Sweltering Drive
• Dreamsploitation - Our Future Salad Days
• Contagious Yawns - Synchronized Swimmers
• Glissandro 70 - Bolan Muppets
• YouYourself&i - Les Points Cardineaux
• Spencer Cullum, featuring Erin Rae - Betwixt & Between
• Shana Cleveland - Walking Through Morning Dew
• L.T.Leif - Synesthetics
• Bike - O Torto Santo
• Yo La Tengo - Tonight’s Episode
• The Hylozoists - Elementary Particles
• The Hylozoists - Warning Against Judging a Christian Brother
• David McCallum - The Edge
• The Common People - I Have Been Alone
• High Season - Way Far
• Dawn to Dawn - Anniversary
• Brian Eno, Hot Chip, goddess - Line in the Sand
• Benoit Pioulard - The Void
• Zoon - Manitou (Single Edit)
• Mega Bog - The Clown
• Nabihah Iqbal - The World Couldn’t See Us
• Uncanny Valley - Mariana's Web
• Morabeza Tobacco - Saturnus
• Decisive Pink - Destiny
• Gnoomes - NST
• Shirley & The Pyramids - High and Low
• Fog Lake - Medicine Road

Finding threads from post-rock to jazz to country instrumentals, from IDM to neo-classical, dream pop, and Guinan grooves: today's AM is one of the most wide-ranging in a long while, but oddly coherent despite it all. All calibrated to shake off the last dregs of February and get ready for the onset of spring. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Bennie Maupin - Ensenada
• Stelar Door - The Calling
• Faten Kanaan - Votive
• Junior Boys - Fidget
• juniorodeo, Himalayan Beach Ensemble - Fledgling
• Martin Brugger - Back Around 5pm
• RAMZi - fly to me
• Benoit Widemann - Tsunami
• Eine Kleine China - User Illusion II
• Lee Paradise - Bereaving
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Emile Mosseri - Green to You
• Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, featuring Moses Sumney - Soon It Will Be Fire
• Jonah Yano - The Speed of Sound!
• Joby Baker - Urubamba Morning Sun
• Tortoise - A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work
• Tortoise - TNT
• ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Skin I’m In
• Edena Gardens - Sombra Del Mar
• Ray Barbee - A Word Aptly Spoken
• Speedy West - Reflections from the Moon
• Chris Reimer - Hongdi
• Deerhoof - Wedding, March, Flower
• The Unspoken Word - Flock of Birds
• The Dragons - Sunset Scenery
• Bembeya Jazz National - Petit Sékou
• Ethel Agee, Preston Scarber, Rev. Dorosco Scarber - Traveling Home
• Kid Koala - Skanky Panky
• Ben LaMar Gay, featuring Ohmme - Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks On You
• Uh Huh - Babylon
• Bernice - Underneath my Toe
• Letters From Mouse, featuring Dr. Nigel Meredith - Early Recovery Phase

A mid-episode throwback to Tony Allen inspires an extended jazz and afrobeat interlude in the show's second hour—consider it a warm-blooded antidote to the frozen landscape on this Family Day morning. Beyond that, it's your usual AM mix of ambient sounds, off-kilter pop, and occasionally explosive shoegaze, all calibrated to wake you up properly on a holiday Monday.

Playlist:

• Early Fern, featuring Joseph Shabason - Softly Brushed by Wind
• Aagtive - Butterfly Sneezes
• Gilroy Mere - Bicycle Ballet
• Khotin - Computer Break (Late Mix)
• Howiewonder - Root
• Afternoon Bike Ride - Before We Don’t Have Time
• Romare - Walking in the Rain
• R McCarthy - Loving on the Moon
• Applesauce Tears - Her Purse Falls and Everything Scatters
• Ashi Shonen - Fall Apart
• Flying Lotus - Remind U
• L CON - Heimatort
• Ben Marc - Way We Are
• Makaya McCraven - Seventh String
• Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge - Ursa Major
• Adrian Quesada - Starry Nights
• King Canyon - To the Moon
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Elastic Band
• Tony Allen - Secret Agent
• Tony Allen - Alutere
• Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté - Spoons
• Minotaurs - Staggered
• Lonnie Holley, featuring Michael Stipe - Oh Me, Oh My
• Laraaji - Koto (Glimpse)
• Marker Starling - Diamond Violence
• Helado Negro - Sound and Vision
• Sessa - Dor Fodida
• Arthur Verocai - Sylvia
• Mac DeMarco - Vancouver 3
• Beach Towels - Warmest One
• Winter, featuring SASAMI - good - Water From Your Eyes Remix
• Sunglaciers - For What
• Fly Pan Am - Distance Dealer
• Flywheel - Thieves
• Young Fathers - Rice

An 8:30 Throwback to a transitionary period for Sly Stone, in an episode that spans from Sly's subdued grooves to New Order ar the poppiest, classic shoegaze, dreamy omnichords from Lael Neale, Twilight Zone and Night of the Living Dead-sampling electronics, and other offbeat easy listening for the first Monday of February.

Peter will be off on Feb. 13, but will be back for the Family Day long weekend, so stay tuned for special guest host next week.

Playlist:

• Golden Brown - Chrysalis
• Jilk - Slowly Coming Together
• Eluvium - Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator)
• Eve Parker Finley - Space Jam
• Yutaka Hirasaka - Polaris
• FOONYAP - Free and Easy Wandering
• Fågelle - Slavar
• Atari Umma - A New Season
• Conic Rose - Learn to Be Cool
• wihtikow - ghul
• Julee Cruise - I Remember
• Lael Neale - I Am The River
• Marlene Ribeiro - You Do It
• Stelar Door - Poke the Bear
• Sly Stone - Just Like a Baby
• Little Sister - Stanga
• SAULT - The Greatest Smile
• Badge Époque Ensemble - The Sound Where My Head Was
• Mong Tong - Showking
• Masahiro Takahashi - Cloud Boat
• Les Big Byrd - Katamaran
• New Order - Sooner Than You Think
• Uncanny Valley - Hard Eyes
• Pale Saints - Hunted
• Dana Gavanski - When It Comes
• Velly Joonas - Stopp, Seisku Aeg!
• Pozi - Failing
• Skinshape - High Tide, Storm Rising
• kkidss - to you
• Shirley & The Pyramids - Sapanta Blue